On the way back, Xu Heping pedaled his bicycle with great speed, shouting excitedly the whole way.
"Thirty servings! A full thirty servings! They're all sold out! That's amazing. I was already thinking about what I would do with all these left over if you couldn't sell them all, but I never expected them to sell out like this."
"Hey Peace, can't you remember anything good about me?"
With no rush to get back, Xu An leisurely pedaled his foot, following Xu Heping at a comfortable distance.
"Hehe, this isn't my first time doing business. My parents always say that business is hard, but it doesn't seem that difficult for you."
“This is different. I’m just doing small-scale business. Your parents’ business is what you call a real business.”
"There's no difference; it's all about selling things to others."
"......"
In fact, Xu An didn't know what he was feeling right now. He was a little excited, a little sentimental, a little dazed, and a little bit incredulous.
With Uncle Dongliang's help, they took the first step with ease.
Once you take this step, as long as you work diligently and honestly without any crooked thoughts, this business will be established.
The cardboard prepared before leaving home also proved very useful, as many people were attracted by the food listed on it.
But we can't change the cardboard every day, and we don't have that many cardboard sheets at home. We need to get a whiteboard that can erase the writing, so we can just erase and write on it before leaving each day.
We're running low on takeout containers, so I need to go to the wholesale market to restock. This morning while cooking, I realized we were missing quite a few things in the kitchen, like large bowls for serving food, slotted spoons, etc. We need to buy those too.
The two drove to the entrance of the wholesale market, where there were stalls selling dried goods, and there was quite a lot of foot traffic.
But the further you go in, the fewer people there are. When you get to the meat stalls, there are only a few cats and dogs left. The shopkeepers are either swatting flies or dozing off.
Xu An walked up to Bald Chen's stall, took out a cigarette and handed it to him: "Boss Chen, why are there so few people here?"
Bald Chen woke up from his nap, wiped his mouth with his hand, and groggily took the cigarette with his eyes half-open.
“It’s you, kid.” Bald Chen recognized Xu An: “Hey, ever since that shop over there opened, the number of people coming to the wholesale market to buy meat has decreased by more than half. Most of the missing people are small restaurant owners. No wonder it’s so quiet.”
Xu An didn't want to rush into a conversation about this topic, so he directly explained the purpose of his visit.
"Boss, please reserve 15 jin of pork with a 3:7 ratio of fat to lean for me tomorrow morning, and pick it up around the same time as this morning."
"If you don't want it now, I'll give you a 50 cents discount per pound if you want it today." Bald Chen took out two pieces of meat from the freezer and showed them to Xu An: "Look at this meat, it meets all your requirements."
"I don't have a refrigerator at home, and it's so hot now, it will spoil by tomorrow."
"There's nothing I can do if there's no refrigerator." Bald Chen put the meat back in the freezer, closed the freezer door, took out a banknote and wrote as he said, "If you want to order 15 jin, you need to give a 20 yuan deposit. If you don't want it anymore, the deposit is non-refundable, but you can keep it to offset the cost of your next purchase."
“Okay.” Xu An took out twenty yuan and handed it to Baldy Chen.
"What's your phone number? Could you leave it with me?"
Xu An's family did not have a fixed power supply, and in the past, they relied on Xu's father's mobile phone or a neighbor's phone to contact people.
However, Xu's father always carried his mobile phone with him, and it broke when he fell, rendering it completely unusable.
Just as Xu An was about to say he didn't want to leave his phone number, Xu Heping recited a string of numbers from the side.
“I’m with him. If anything happens, call me and I’ll tell him.”
Bald Chen glanced at Xu An, and seeing that he had no objection, he wrote down the string of numbers that Xu Heping had mentioned on the order.
"Two copies are required. Please bring this receipt over tomorrow morning."
While the group was talking, Xu Kang and Xu Le crawled under the counter and stared intently at Bald Chen's two large tattooed arms, whispering to each other in a voice loud enough for everyone present to hear.
"What's that in Uncle Baldy's hand?"
"I know, they're stickers!" Xu Kang sighed, mimicking an adult. "So many stickers, how much money did they cost? What a waste!"
"Yeah, what a spendthrift!"
It was obvious from hearing those words that they had learned them from Grandma Xu; the imitation was spot on.
Bald Chen was both amused and exasperated upon hearing this. He widened his eyes, made a funny face, and threatened the two of them: "I heard you talking bad about me. Uncle Bald is very angry and is going to eat you up."
The two were immediately frightened and fled behind Xu An, burying their heads under his clothes, muttering repeatedly, "Bald Uncle is so scary."
After apologizing to Bald Chen, Xu An patted the two people behind him and went to the daily necessities section with Xu Heping.
I bought a bunch of takeout boxes and kitchen utensils, which cost me about 100 yuan.
When passing by the vegetable market, there were still a few vegetable stalls scattered around. Xu An got out of the car and went inside to take a look.
I harvested all the produce from my vegetable garden for the next few days today, and now I'll have to buy vegetables at the market.
Vegetables depreciate in value over time after being picked from the field. If they can't be sold today, most of them won't be able to be sold tomorrow.
Therefore, vegetables at the market are very cheap at this time of year.
After picking and choosing for a while, Xu An came out carrying two halves of winter melon. The two halves of winter melon weighed a total of twelve jin, at three mao per jin, for a total of three yuan and six mao.
After this shopping spree, the tricycle was piled high with goods. There was nowhere to put the two winter melons, so they had to be placed in Xu Kang and Xu Le's arms and carried by the two of them.
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